How to Use blow the whistle in a Sentence

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• After the referees blew the whistle dead in the fourth quarter, Clark and Bonner got entangled in an exchange of words.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
• As Cape Verde prepared its defense, the referee blew the whistle, meaning Messi could proceed.
  — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 4 July 2026
• The ads were allowed to begin 20 seconds after the referee blew the whistle for the break and had to end 30 seconds before play started again, which meant there was room for eight extra 30-second ad slots per match.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• The practice referees didn’t blow the whistle on the second sack, allowing quarterback Malik Willis to throw a completion to tight end Ben Sims that converted a first down.
  — Omar Kelly august 3, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
• In November 2024, assassins on a motorcycle in the Pacific port city of Manzanaillo shot dead a rear admiral who was said to have blown the whistle on navy entanglement in fuel-smuggling.
  — Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026